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Type of Object
Bottle, drug
Date of Manufacture
1900-1940
Physical Details
Empty brown glass bottle with metal screw top. 1/2 oz capacity. Oblong shape, two curved sides and two flat, one with ridges and "1/2" stamped at the top. Bottom of bottle is stamped "1/2 oz. U. S. A." Cap has small vertical ridges around edge and a smooth top. There is a band of what appears to be adhesive residue around the un-ridged side of the bottle's body.
Dimensions
6.5 cm. x 3.5 cm. x 1.7 cm.
Medical Subject
Drug Packaging
Accession Number
1982.101l
Genre
medical equipment
Local Genre
medical artifact
Type
Still Image
Digital Format
image/jpg
Language
eng
Rights Statement URL
Rights
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Collection
Medical Artifacts Collection
Source
Original object: Small Brown Glass Bottle, VCU Health Sciences Library Medical Artifacts. Special Collections and Archives, VCU Health Sciences Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.
File Name
mar00094.jpg